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Huntington Beach has dealt with wild parties, drunken melees and political unrest.
But nothing prepared officials for “Adrian’s kickback,” which started as a simple birthday party for an Inland Empire teenager and turned into a viral TikTok event that drew thousands to the beach last week though not Adrian Lopez, who in the days leading up to the party was increasingly nervous about all the attention.
When it was over, more than 175 people were arrested, city officials and merchants were adding up the damage, and everyone was wondering who should be blamed and who should be billed.
The way Adrian’s birthday invitation went viral has alarmed city leaders, who say they are not sure how to deal with it. City Councilman Dan Kalmick is angry that police resources and taxpayer dollars were spent on what he called
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Meanwhile, about a quarter of the respondents say they use either Twitter, WhatsApp or TikTok. Reddit and YouTube were the platforms that showed the most growth compared to the last Pew survey conducted in 2019. Otherwise, most platforms showed little user growth.
North, the USC professor, said some platforms might have reached their peak. But, she points out that Reddit s recent growth coincides with a group of small investors who joined forces on Reddit under the subreddit r/WallStreetBets, and caused the stock of struggling video game retailer GameStop to surge to nearly $500 a share in late January.
The professor called Reddit s sudden impact remarkable, and made her take a different perspective about the platform.